Dome Cathedral (Doma baznica) 
(Evangelical-Lutheran cathedral), Doma laukums
 
The largest place of worship in the Baltics, measuring 187 x 43m, with walls two metres 
thick, its organ is one of the biggest (6,768 pipes!) in Europe. The drop from Dome Square 
to the cathedral's base shows how the level of the city has risen in the 700 years since 
its foundations were laid on the site of a Livonian fishing village. 


St. Jacob's (Jekaba baznica) 
Klostera 2, 

This church beside the parliament was first mentioned in the chronicles in 1225. 
In 1522, it became the first church in Latvia to hold a Lutheran service, but during 
a brief Polish occupation 60 years later it was returned to its Catholic flock, 
who have held it ever since. This year it's celebrating its 775th anniversary.